Weird, my gaming life

When not in a dream, the game character is still active, but the chance of gaining potential points is much lower, a world of difference compared to when Lin Yuan plays the game personally in a dream.

Because game characters don't do extra things specifically to gain potential points.

There's not much work to do in the farm, and given the age of the game character, if they don't actively look for things to do, they can only gain 0.1 potential points a day, and sometimes none at all.

Because the game character is completely childlike, and the tasks assigned by the parents must be completed in order to gain potential points.

For example, if parents ask a game character to collect a load of firewood, but the character only collects half a load, what does this mean? This means the task is incomplete, and naturally there will be no reward.

In fact, most of the potential points were created by Lin Yuan when he entered the game over the past three years.

This is only because Lin Yuan sometimes ignores his parents' worries and dissuasion, which is why he can accumulate fifteen points of strength.

In fact, Lin Yuan had tried to train himself to gain rewards such as strength points, but the results were very disappointing.

When Lin Yuan was four years old, he took advantage of his parents' absence and the lack of assigned tasks to train on his own. He first did ten push-ups, but they had no effect, so he gritted his teeth and did twenty more.

As a result, a system notification sounded, making him afraid to make any further moves.

"Because of your haphazard martial arts practice, your physical potential has been damaged, and your innate constitution has been reduced by one point!"

When Lin Yuan heard this notification, he was completely stunned. After that, he dared not train himself haphazardly anymore. However, he also found a way to gain more potential points, which was to satisfy his parents and improve the quality of his missions.

For example, you can gain extra potential points by going up the mountain to collect firewood, occasionally stealing bird eggs along the way, digging for wild vegetables, and bringing back things to supplement your household income outside of your missions.

However, after the game became more realistic, the NPCs here also became indistinguishable from real people. Generally, after doing it three times, the parents would feel sorry for their children and would not let them continue to do hard labor.

After all, he was still young, and his parents from the farming family were quite satisfied that he could do so many things.

The game character that is left idle won't do much of this. After finishing the tasks assigned by their parents, they will spend most of their remaining time playing with the other children in the village.

However, this isn't without its advantages. Perhaps because the game characters aren't very utilitarian, it's easier to gain insights or serendipitous encounters when playing with friends.

Silently closing the attribute panel, Lin Yuan prepared to check out this new place. After all, he was new here and needed to familiarize himself with the environment around Qinghe Palace so that he could do his missions better.

Lin Yuan felt a sense of urgency to become stronger. The real world was not simple. Over the years, several of his neighbors had died silently. As for the reasons, as Lin Yuan's mental strength improved, he also understood how terrifying the real world was.

"Strange! Strange things are everywhere!"

Encountering a ghost in broad daylight is not an unbelievable thing. Several times, Lin Yuan saw a pale figure with a strange smile at him at his doorstep. If he responded, his fate would be no different from that of his neighbors.

He almost fell for a scam once. He was four years old when his mother took his older brother out one day, leaving him alone at home with nothing to do.

Suddenly, there was a knock on his door. Lin Yuan was a little confused. His mother and brother had just left, so why were they back so soon? Had they forgotten something?

Without much thought, Lin Yuan opened the door.

As soon as the door opened, Lin Yuan's pupils contracted rapidly. He saw a thin man with a pale, bloodless face looking at him with a smile.

"Little one, your mom asked me to come and take you out to play. Do you want to come play with me?"

Lin Yuan stood at the door, looking at the man in front of him who thought he had a kind face. He felt his blood freeze and his heart skip a beat, because the man in front of him was his neighbor who had recently died tragically next door.

When the police arrived, out of habit, he stood by the window and clearly watched as they carried his mangled body into the ambulance.

A pair of terrified, white-eyed eyes were staring at him intently, almost scaring him so much he wet his pants.

His brother reacted quickly and covered his eyes. For a long time, Lin Yuan was traumatized by the sight of such a bloody and cruel scene for the first time.

But then the person who was clearly dead stood at his doorstep, wanting to take him out to play. He felt a chill run down his spine, his throat went dry, and the words of refusal seemed stuck in his throat, and he couldn't bring himself to speak.

A chilling aura enveloped him, sending shivers down his spine and instantly maximizing his fear level.

Just as Lin Yuan was stiff and at a loss, the neighbor's voice began to sound impatient.

"Little one, come out quickly! Didn't you hear Uncle say he'd take you to play?"

As soon as he finished speaking, crimson blood began to flow down the man's face like a spring, and his stomach slowly split open, revealing his shredded intestines and a twisted mouth. A foul stench emanated from the stomach, almost making him vomit up the milk he had just drunk.

Overwhelmed by fear, Lin Yuan kept retreating, while the man, seeing his terrified expression, gradually became more excited and twisted, his mouth splitting open all the way to his ears.

They kept slowly approaching him, and just when Lin Yuan thought he was about to die at the hands of this terrifying man...

Suddenly, the terrifying man stopped in his tracks, a look of pain and resentment on his face, and slowly disappeared through the doorway.

At first, Lin Yuan didn't know why, but later he realized that as long as he was with his brother or in a room filled with his brother's presence, the strange things that were everywhere outside wouldn't easily approach him. It was from that day on that he gradually discovered the difference in his brother.

Whether it's his brother taking him out to play or his brother's favorite toys, those scary guys will avoid him like the plague.

And it was after seeing the ghost that day that he discovered that countless people in his field of vision, who were originally normal, began to have two faces.

But now his brother is gone!

He could no longer find refuge. Even though he now had some ability to protect himself, it was nothing compared to his brother's invulnerable constitution. After all, the supernatural was not only a physical monster, but also a creature of pure spirit.

He can contend with physical monsters using his current strength, which is twice that of an ordinary person, but what about those spirit beings?

Therefore, he desperately wanted to find a power that could resist the strange forces, and the martial arts and internal energy of this world undoubtedly gave him hope.

"Lin Yuan, are you awake? Today is the day the Transmission Elder is coming to impart the teachings. Hurry up, or you'll be late!"

Just as Lin Yuan got up, a loud shout came from outside the door, making him realize what day it was.

"I understand, I'll be right out!"

After saying that, Lin Yuan quickly walked towards the door. When he opened the door, he saw a boy who was a bit stronger than him, a head taller, wearing a blue Taoist robe. The boy, about eight or nine years old, had dark circles under his eyes and was looking at him with a look of utter disbelief.

Lin Yuan's memory raced, and he quickly remembered who this person was. It was Li Erniu, his childhood friend from the same village, a fellow villager from Tiejiacun who had been taken in as a Taoist disciple along with him.

"I'm telling you, you're not enthusiastic at all about learning martial arts! I didn't sleep a wink last night, tossing and turning all night thinking about how I'm about to become a legendary hero!"

"Haha, Brother Erniu, me too, that's why I got up a little late today. Let's go!"

Lin Yuan said somewhat impatiently.

He remembered that every sect in the martial arts world had a free basic internal energy cultivation manual.

Even a menial disciple can learn it.

Such a basic and low-level technique was naturally looked down upon by players in the previous life.

After all, the martial arts techniques they pursue are legendary peerless skills like the Nine Yin and Nine Yang techniques, and the Dragon Elephant Prajna techniques.

But for Lin Yuan now, it is extremely important.

Because this is the only internal energy cultivation method he can currently access, and it is also the non-physical attack method that Lin Yuan can most easily obtain.

Lin Yuan naturally had a strong longing for the internal energy from his previous life, as it was the kind of internal energy that allowed people to fly over rooftops and walk on walls!

Even if he was at the lowest level, it was something that only existed in his imagination in his previous life, but now he could actually obtain it. It would be a lie to say that he wasn't excited.